They had heard about Jerome's clocks which had been retailed about the country, and that they were good time-keepers, and would enquire for my clocks.

These New York men would say that they were agents for Jerome and that they would have a plenty in a few days, and make a sale to these merchants of Jerome clocks.

They would then go to the Printers and have a lot of labels struck off and put into their cheap clocks, and palm them off as mine.
This fraud was carried on for several years.

I finally sued some of these blackleg parties, Samuels & Dunn, and Sperry & Shaw, and found out to my satisfaction that they had used more than two hundred thousand of my labels.

They had probably sent about one hundred thousand to Europe.
I sued Samuels & Dunn for twenty thousand dollars and when it came to trial I proved it on them clearly.